The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-02-10
oop.s COVENANT WITH AsHAM.
International sunday-sohoel Lesson for
February -, 1887.
Especially arranged from g. 8. Quarterly.1

FoDRuory 1Ss 1851
Especially srrsnsed from g. 8. Quarterly.l
Gen. 15:6-1S; commit verses "a.
q And He brought him forth abroad, and said:
Look now toward Heaven, and tell the stars, II
thou be able 10 number them; and He said unto
him: 30 shah thy seed be-
=. And he believed In the Lord; and he
counted II to Him for righteousness.
Z. And He said unto him: am the Lord that
brought thee out Of Ur Of the Chaldees to give
thee this land TO inherit II.
9. And he said: Lord God, whereby shall
know that shall inherit it,
0. And He said unto him: Take Me heifer OF
three years old, and o she-goat of three years
old, and q ram Of three years old, and turtle
dove, and young pigeon.
10. And He took unto Him all these, and d.
vided them in the midst, and laid each piece
one against another but the birds divided
He not.
II. And when the fowls came down upon the
carcasses Abram drove them awsy.
IL. And when the sun was going down, deep
sleep fell upon Abram; and, 10, o horror Of
great darkness fell upon him.
13. And He said unto Abram: Know Of
surety that thy seed shall be o stranger in o
land that is not theirs, and shall serve them;
and they shall afflict them four hundred years.
IA. And also that nation, whom they shall
serve, will I Judge; and afterward shall they
come out with great substance
1b And thou salt go to thy fathers in peace;
thou shalt be buried In good old age.
l0 But in the fourth generation they shall
come hither again; for the iniQuity Of the
Amorites is not yet full.
went down, and It was dark, behold Q smoking
furnace, and o burning lamp that passed be.
tween those pieces.
1s. In the same day the Lord made . cove.
nsnt with Abram, saying: Unto thy seed have
given this land !fon the river Of Egypt unto
the great river, the river Euphrates.
TIME-B.C. 1912. Five or Six years after
the last lesson.
PLAcx-Hebron, twenty miles south of
Jerusalem. Abrsham,s home for some
years. Here he was buried.
ABRAHAM-Ei Eighty-four years old, and
still childless.
INrRoDUCToRY-Soon after Lot went TO-
ward Sodom, Abraham went thirty miles
south to Hebron. For few years ell
seemed to 60 well with Lot, and then the
great Eastern nations came down upon
Sodom, and sacked the cities of the plain,
and carried away captive Lot, his family,
and his property Abraham soon heard Of
1t, and being as brave Is he was good, he
took his S18 armed servants, pursued after
the retreating army and, by sudden night
attack, rescued Lot and recovered his prop
erty. Even this lesson did not make Lot
remove from Sodom.
HELPS OVER HARD PLACES - Abraham
seems to have been discouraged. Q There
may have been reaction from his heroic
exploit; C2) disappointment that Lot went
back to Sodom; (9 fear that the great
Kings from whom he had rescued Lot
would return and destroy him and his; (4)
delay Of the promise. God therefore gives
him His promise Of protection in a eision,
and confirms it with sign (5) Tell TIE
stars: about 5000 stars are visible to the
naked eye, but no one can tell the ex.
act number. The stars seen by tele
scope are innumerable. There are Il, ,0O0, ,00(
in the Milky Way alone. Some Of the neb
ulse are supposed to bc systems Of stars al
large as the one to which our nightly heav
ems belong 50 shau thy seed be: his natura
and also his spiritual descendants (Gal. 8
Z, 20). 9. Cosstedtt to Him for Righteousness
accepted it in the place Of good deeds b,
/ could not do, but would do II he could.
was regarded by God as real goodness, for i
was the source and soul Of real goodness
| It Is what we most desire In our children
II they trust and love US, all else we asl
will come. 10. Dividsd, etc. the animals
were divided len9thwise, and the piecei
ranged in two rows. II. Fouls: birds o
prey-eagles, hawks, vulturcs. Drove Men
array: this ceremony was begun In tn
morning, and Abraham watched all day
So should we drive away the worldl!
thoughts and evil suggestions that woull
interrupt our hours Of devotion. 18 Fos
hundred years: . round number for the -
years from Abrams call to the Exodus, o
the exact number from Isaac to the Exc
dus. (See Acts 7:6; Gal. 8:17.) IA. Judgt
| execute judgments, as the ten plaques d
Pharaoh. Is. Good old age: 175 years. Il
1 L.-.- a,~n -nA %~n
which came tie bwrstng lamp; t. g., Q fam
fire that consumed the divided sacrifices,
sign Of acceptance and permanency, for tn
parts burned together could never be ser
arated again. 1S River Of Egypt (the Nile
to Euph,ates: fulfilled in Solomon's tim
Il Kings 4:21. It always belonged
Israel, whether they kept possession or no
SUBJECTS FOR SPECIAL REPoRTs-Re,
sons for encouragement ON the part {
Abraham. His vision. The sign of th
stars. Abraham's faith. Faith counted Z
Righteousness. The covenant The prou
ise.
GOLDEN TExT-Tear not, Abram; I q
thy shield, and thy exceeding great =
wsrd.-Gen. Is: 1.
CENTRAL TRUrH-Faith the source {
righteousness and blessing.
New TESTAMENT LIGHT ON OLD TEST
MENT TMEMEs-l. How does Paul make III
Of Abraham's example to teach us sbo,
faithi (Rom. 4: 1-6) Can you see how b
faith was counted for righteousness
What shows the strength Of his faitl
(Rom. 4: 16-1s.) What does James tea.
us by Abraham's exsmplsi (James Q:
24.) q What 10 Gods covenant with y
(C3aL 2: 10; 8: 22; Heb, Q: 12-A) What
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